The Sun. — London, England, 1809-07-21 00:00:00

NAVY-OP FICZ. .7.4 27, iSog. THE PRINCIPAL °PIKERS and COM .wis.iloNEßs cj His Majesy's Navy do hereby give t Yee, BRICKLAYERS as can produce Indenture, el At prenticeihip for Seven Years, are of Good Cbaraaer, and no t excredin,; 35 Ye.;7 S o f Age., may find emplsyment at His Majesty's ack-Yard, at Sheerness, app(yirg to 2.5 e O f ficers of teat Yard. FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. MkDRID, JUNE 13.—Our Sovereign, far from imitaiing his predecessors,' who, on their accession to the throne, thought themselves dispensed from obligation to provide for a debt, which they found too great, and considered, in some measure, as not theirs, because it existed before their reign ; has j:lst applied a remedy to -this ancient wound of the St.ie, -- by a measure wise, vast, and worthy of thl. goodness which characterises hi., heart ;—his loyal!y repelling all ideas of bankruptcy, which un der former reiuns bad reduced so many- families to beggary. - He has, by a decree of the gth instant, recognised all the debts of the State, in order to ap ply to their extinaion etfeEts which have'been long lost to society. The royal vales shall possess their full nornioal value, and shall be received as specie .for the purchase of national property. Thus all Jobbing will be checked, and confidence strengthen- , ed in the, new Government. This tnessure alone would suffice to immortalize the name of our Monarch, and assure the prosperity' of the Spanish nation. A Decree was also published on the 9th, contain ing a t!umber of formal provisions, respe&ing the node of Yelling land; belonging to the State. SAINT GALL, JUNE 16.—The insurgents of the Tyrol and Voralberg have been prohibited entering the territory of Switzerland, on pain of death. CETTE, JUNE 20.—The English who, during the iti,,nth of September in last year, made several incursions upon the coast of the Gulph of Lyons, and who endeavoured, on the t2th of the same month, to set fire to the town of Cette by means of rockets, though then driven off by the cannon of the place and the rni!itary ardour of its inhabitants, attempted again Oil the Bth instant to make a new attack upon this town and port, 'against which one of their frigates fired off some 16-pounders, and at length a broadside. Their balls passed over the town ; and as we, on our part, could reach the fri g,4te with - our 24-pounders, we believe that our ar tillery, which was well . served, has done the frigate considerable damage, as it did not main tam the contest long, and has not dared to approach 138 RN, JUNE 16.—An insurreaion lately broke out in the Pays de Yaud, to which the taxes and the military conscriptions served as a pretence; but it was qu....iled by the aid of 500 Fienchmen, .and two discharges of tausqueiry. Many of the Can tons refused to take any share in the rebellion. Some of he insurgents have been taken to Milan ; others are confined at Sondrio, or have escaped. Quiet is estored again. 1 0 Eipito, JUNE 23.—Qar paper contains the fol low tag :—" Yesterday 4 , 14 a memorable day for .the inhabitants of this place. After some slight skirmishes between die Austrian and Brunswick troops, and the Saxons, the latter retreated through the town, when the Austrians, under the command of his Excellency General Am Ende, and the Bruns wick troops, under the command of the Duke of Brtny.wick Oels, entered, algid the unequivocal ma r. potations of the collected inhabitants," &c. WARSAW, Juxa 12.—The Polish Council of State returned hitter on the Bth, and were received by the Public, IA ith great.demOnstrations of joy. Sixty foreigners, of ditrerent_rank, have been lately affected here. Their papers have been laid before a Committee appointed to examine them.— Not only in Warsaw, but also in other places in the Duchy, which the enemy entered, there were in dividuals who conclUdeJ themselves traitorously.— The Polish Government is now compelled to adopt tne:isures of severity against those ungrateful persons who take advantage of hospitality and beneficence. Some of these foreigners have been imprisoned in the fortress of Modiin, and delivered over to a Mi litary Tribunal ; others have been set at liberty with an injunaion never to enter Poland again. When the official intelligence reached us from St. relef,,burgh, that the Russian army was about to aet in co-operation with the French and Poles, against the Austrians, the Archduke Ferdinand ci , ,sed a l'i•ociii:ation to be published in our Gazette (April ‘<i9), orjci - , to cause that intelligence to be Among other things it was said, °'• Sown p, , rsons have left the metropolis for the re , mote provinces, only to disquiet the peaceful citi zen, and induce him to take up arms, by falsely staling that foreign troops are about to enter the co , lut - ry," A la, , cree has pa,sed, removing all who are Prus sini subjects by birth, who have no right of citizen ship, troll; I;ablic offices. STRALSUND, JUNE 15.-A Proclamation has been puid shed here, oEring a reward for the delivering up of papers belonging to Marshal Soult, which had bad been seized by the partisanS of Schill. At the same time threats are held forth against those who should withhold these articles or any other property, seized by the adherents of Sail!. MILAN, JUNE 28.—The Senate assembled this morning to hear the letter which had been written by his Majesty the Emperor and King to the Presi det,t. It is as follows: " MOYSIEUE, the President of the Senate of my kingdom of Italy—l. approve of the sentiments con tained in the letter of the Senate of the 28th of M a y. I know the attachment it bears to my person and country. I desire that my people of Italy may know the satisfaction have felt at their conduot during the late occuences. They have repelled with contempt and indignation the calumnious sog gestions'and appeals to sedition and revolt which have been marle to them by, the Princes of that un grateful and perjured house, - whose leaden sceptre has, during so many ages, oppressed our unhappy Italy. Torn alternately by the faaions of the Court of Rome, and those of the German Emperors, it was long divided and subjugated. Providence has reaerved to me the singular consolation to•behold it, united under my laws, rise again' to the great and liberal ideas which our ancestors, the first anaonz the moderns, proclaimed after ages of barbarism.— I am not less satisfied with the courage and bravery displayed by my Italian troops. On the borders of the Baltic, and on the banks of the Danube and the Ebro, they have shewn they were of the blood of the ancient Italians, &c. ‘.‘ From my Imperial Camp at Schoenbrunn June 16, 1809." _ This letter was interrupted by the fondest ap plauses. The Senate required it should be read a second time ; and a Committee was appointed for making the letter known to the inhabitants of the kingdom. • On the 27th, the Senate decreed, among other things, that the sentiments expressed in the letter of his Majesty, should be consecrated, by an in scription to be placed in the Senate, in order to pre serve the memory of the Emperor's magnanimity. MAILs. ARA tvEri—l Malta, r Dublin, 2 Waterford. Duz—z Gottenburgh, I Lisbon. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols • - 68 1 Red. Ann. 68i 1 Omniurn -1p r. THE SU N. 401.114 qui. DlCiat , AUDiAT ? 1, 0 AT 1) 0 IV, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1809. TOTAL DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIANS. It is this day our painful duty to announce to our Readers the extin&ion of the hopes which we entertained of the ultimate success of the Austrians. Yesterday we expressed our apprehensions with res peet to the result of that dreadful battle, which was "to decide the fate of the Austrian Monarchy," but we did not expe& that our fears would be so soon realized, and to such an extent. Intelligence has been received by Government, that BUONAPARTE having, as he states in the 24th Bulletin, compleated all his stupendous preparations foi pasaing the Danube, determined once more to cross the river, and give battle to the Austrians. On the morning of the fith of July the whole French Army crossed the River, and, being pro tetied by their totes-du-pout, formed in order of battle. We are not in possession of the details of this unfortunate Battle, but we understand that it was contested during the whole of that day with the utmost obstinacy, and with dreadful carnage on both sides : the French had, however, decidedly the ad- vantage. On the morning of the 7th, the battle was again renewed with great fury, but the superiority of num bers, on the part of the French, and ihe advantage of some positions which they had obtained the day before, ultimately decided the battle in favour of the French. The Austrians were completely defeated; they lost near 12,000 in killed and wounded, 20,000 pri. soners, and a vast number general Otlicers.—Tne lobs•of the French was also very great ; in killed and wounded it probably exceeded that of the Austrians, because the latter were entrenched, and covered by a numerous artillery, admirably served. The Austrian army retreated upon Bohemia. We feel too much depressed with this disastrous intelligence to offer any comments upon h at pre sent : we can only hope that these details, which come from France, may be exaggerated: There was a general firing from all the batteries on the French coast yesterday, and on WednesJay night illuminations were distinctly seen. This event will not, we should presume, have any erect upon the sailing of our Expedition ; indeed the de feat of the Austrians renders it more important that the object which it was first destined to ae- complish, should be performed ; but, with regard to the ulterior objects of the Expedition, it is proba- ble they may be either altered or abandond, in con• sequence of this intelligence. Since writing the above, we have learnt that the 25th and 26th Bulletins have arrived. They state, that on the 4th of July, in the middle of a dark' tempestuous night, the French crossed the Danube, turned the Austrian redoubts, came upon their flank, and in two battles totally defeated them. The remnant of the Austrian Army, retreated in- to Bohemia, abandoning Moravia and Hungary. This account differs from that which we first re- ceived only in point of date—unfortunately the re sult is the'same. We this day continue our extracts from the last French Papers, and among other articles we find one which states that JOSEPH BOONAPARTE has is sued Decrees for the sale of what he calls national property, in Spain. This property consists of the estates belonging to Ecclesiastical Establish menti, and the Nobility, &c. who resisted his usurpation, and are friends to their legitimate mo narch. This is an artful scheme to conciliate the people, to whom he has repeated his declaration that. the National Debt of the Country, comprehended in the form of Vales Reales, something analogous to our Exchequer Bills, shall be deemed sacred, and shall be taken at their full nominal value in the purchase of the aforesaid national pro perty. These Vales Reales were in a state of extreme depreciation during the former Go vernment in Spain, but one of the first aas of the Central Junta was, to issue a decree that the funds appropriated for their discharge were inviola ble, and should so be regarded, even during the struggles of the country for the support of its inde pendence. As the Junta have, therefore, got the start of JOSEPH, in declaring that the Vales Reales should be held sacred, his affected regard to the Na tional Debt, can have but little effe& upon the peo ple, particularly as his respe& for one species of pro p:rty is shewn by the sacrifice of many others, and one most venerated in such a country as Spain. Just before the Paper was put to press we received a Moniteur of the loth inst. from which we have made the following Extratis NAPLES, JUNE 28.—0 n the 24th of this month, the English made a descent in the Island of Ischia. This enterprize gave place to two maritime battles, of which the following are the details:— " On the 25th, in i the morning, some of our gun boats, sustained by a frigate and a corvette, advanced againkt those of the enemy, superior to ours in the number and the force of their ships. The anion commenced at nine o'clock in the morning. " The fire was continual and very lively duting many hours. We had against us four English fri. gates, two brigs, and 14 gun-boats. An English frigate has been considerably damaged, but a rein forcement arrived, it returned without having suf fered any great loss. " At the same time 30 of our gun-boats which had been some time stationed at Gaeta, had received orders to go to Naples, by the canal which separates the.two Islands of Procida and Ischia. The dangers of this voyage appeared extreme : . they triumphed over them with infinite skill. " Our flotilla passed through, on the 26th, the whole of that of the enemy, and arrived at the place of rendezvous at the break of day. The dangers commenced at t.ie moment. " The island of Procida was in the hands of the enemy ; which was seized upon by him, wiihout striking a blow. This accident deprived our flotilla of the protedion of the batteries of Procida, the fire of which crosses that of the batteries of Meliscola at Cape Masena. " Then the enemy's forces sure of not being at tacked by land, all united against our fleet, which was no longer protedecl;' expel by the small bat tery of Meliscola. The action commenced at day break, and continued until nine o'clock. " Under no circumstances has the Neapolitan Ma rine so fully justified the reputation which it has ever held in the estimation of naval men. The re sults, which concern the honour of the nation, are those of the courage with .which it has fought. Ac cording to this report, our glory could not be greater. " An English brig was burnt by the battery of Meliscola, which was directed by the brave Capt. ORSINI. One of their gun-boats was sunk. We have had only one man killed, and a few wounded, but among our gun-boats some have been sunk alongside the enemy's ships, others have been driven on shore, but we hope to be able to get them off. Several have returned to port. I n s pite of this imposing spet9acle of war, of which all the town was a witness; in spite of the fright of some timid people, and in spite of the secret hopes of some guilty men, who are known, the capital was never more tranquil than it is at this mo ment, in which the enemy displays to our view his menacing forces, in order to diSturb the peace which reigns amongst us. This internal peace which we enjoy, is owing principally to the confidence which the people have in the person of their King. " The corps of volunteers, which augmented but slowly when the enemy was distant from us, in creased beyond measure upon his approach. " Intelligence from the provinces is equally plea sant ;:every where tranquility reigns, and the incen diary Proclamations which the English-Sicilian Army has thrown almost every where on our coasts, seems for the present to have had no other effect f than that of rallying round the Throne all the people of the kinBda(l)." The Duke of Kent packet is arrived at Falmouth, from Malta. She sailed from thence the 16th May, from Gibraltar the 2:h June, and from Cadiz the gth June, NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, JULY 19.—Passed down Channel his Majesty's ship Africmine, of 3.6 guns, Captain RAGGETT ; she has on board Mr. JACKSON, the Bri tish Envoy to America. Arrived his Majesty's ship Narcissus, of 36 guns, Captain MALCOLM, from the West Indies; she brought over from thence, Generals MAITLAND and MONTGOMERY. Arrived the American Brig Esdra and Daniel, HALL, Master, from New York, bound to Bilbao, laden with rice, logwood, sugar, coffee, and cocoa, detained by his Majesty's ship Arethusa, of 36 guns, Captain MENDS ; the Brig Flora, FURSE, from Li verpool ; Mug, BISSETT, from London ; the Jo. seph and Mary, MAY, from Swansea. Arrived the Orestes, of 18 guns, with a new sloop of war in tow, from Dartmouth, to be cop. pered and rigged ; this is the vessel Which was off this port yesterday. Also arrived the , Harlequin hired armed ship, from a cruize. YARMOUTH, Juror 2 0.- - Arrived the Princess Au gusta cutter from Heligoland, and landed an Au, strian Messenger, and the Urgent gun-brig, with Dispatches and Letters from the Baltic Fleet; re, maining in the Roads with the Roebuck, Vice-Ad; miral DOUGLAS, the Havoc and Exertion gun-brigs. By an order of the Board of Admiralty, the new jetty, which was re-built last year, is to be carried one quarter its length more into the sea, the end to form a T, with a commodious landing on each side, and to be completed as soon as possible. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 20.—The transports lately arrived here from Cadiz are ordered to the Downs. The Expedition remains. DEAL, JCLY 20.—Arrived the Orris, WOODS, from New York, and sailed for the River. SHEERNESS, JULY - 28.—This morning, at four o'clock, the lkspeslition :sailed with the following ships, viz. Namur, Courageux, Isis, Princess of Orange, Adamant, Leyden, Ulysses, Trompeuse, Sabrina, Reindeer, Raleigh, Fly, Cordelia, A ppelles, Gallant, Rebuff, Cracker, Furidus, Thunderer an d diEtna bombs, with eighty-four gun-boats. The - following we believe to be a correa List of the Military and Medical Staff of the Expedition : Lieutiosat.General the Earl of Chatham, Commander in Chief. Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coot; Second in Command. Lieutenant-Generals the Earl of Rosslyn, Marquis of Huntley, Grosvenor, Sir lohn Hope, Mackenzie, Fraser, Lord Paget and Brownrigg. Major-Generals Linsingen, I. Craham, Earl of Dalhousie, Dyott, Leith, Pidon, Wm. Stuart, and Sir Win. Erskine. Brigadier-Generals Harston, Disney, Montresor, Aciusind, ,Sontag, Reitenburgh and Brown. QUARTER -MASTeIt-GErerEAT:a Lieutenant-General Brownrigg, Quarter-Master-Cowrie. Lieutenant-Colonel Birch, Deputy Quarter-Master Ge..- neral. A ssistant.Quarter-Masters-General ...-Lieutenant.Colonel Pierrepoucher, Offiiey, Sir 14. Douglas. and Hon. E. Anon. Majors—Marlay, Muller, Nisbett, Dickson, Mondemberg, Hon. J. Blacquier, and Hon. C. Cathcart. Deputy - Assistant-Quartet-Masters- General Captains Macklerath, White, Licking, k'ierrepont, Harries, french and ()wen. Lieutenant-Colonel A. Dalzei, ludge•AdVocate. Captain Lee, Provost Marshal. MEDICAL pEPARTMIINT.: Inspeaor-General of Hospitals - Webb. Deputies—Grant, Bernar, Arding. Physicians—Mawood, Falkner, Knight , • crawfbta, Ban croft, Aire. Staff Surgeons—Doughty, Emery, Crumpe, %rani; In glis, Brown, Hosak, Lys, Garden, Adolphus, Irving, Per gill, Denicke, Robb, Vassal, Lidderdsle. Purveyors—R. Stewart, W. lames. Deputy Purveyors— Usher, Bradford. A pothecaries—Nurton, Caadington. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S DRPARTWENT. Colonel Long, Adjutant-General ; i Dar- ling, Deputy Adjutant-General. Assistant Adjutants-General Lieutenant-Colonels Mt*. sham, lion. B. Keppel, Walsh, Farquharson, MiDonala, Diaper, Anderson, and Major Bradford. Deputy-Assistants—Captains Jervis Elphingstone, Mar• shall, Leggat, Barclay, Knightley, Gibbs, /3erron, lvestlon, Erdgill, Fothermgham and Carnell. Wednesday her MAJESTY, Princessei AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, ELIZABETH, and MARY, accompanied by Lady G. MURRAY, Mr. and Mrs. DRAX GROSVENOR and Daughter, Lady THYNNE, General DE. RUDE, and Colonel DESBROW, went to. Si. Leonard's Hill, the seat of the Earl of HARCOURT, where they dined with Lord and Lady HARCOURT. There were also of the party invited, Lord and Lady BATHURST, Marquis CORNWALLIS, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. G. VIL LIERS and Family; Colonel NEWDIGOT, CoOnt Murivrisit, nilci Major TALWIT, ke. Her MAlitsrx returned to Windsor at eight o'clock. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY the Duke of CUMBERLAND, Princesses SOPHIA and AU GUSTA, accompanied by Generals CARTWRIGHT and F ITZ .. ROY, Mr. DRAX GROSVENOR, Colonels TA Y LOR an d DESBROW, rode in Windsor Park, and returned at twelve. We are authorized to contradict the report in some of the Papers of Brigadier-general Sir ROBERr WIL isoN having resigned his command in Portugal, he be ng now with his brigade under Sir A. WELLESLEY. It is said that Captain BARCLAY, whose move ments have lately excited so much attention, is gone with our Expedition. If so, he has taken steps to procure a more rational tame than that to which he has hithqrto aspired, and his charater will obtain, in the opinion of his countrymen, a better footing. • The Lady who has been spoken of frequently as having rode 1000 miles in 1000' hours, at Newmar ket, in 1758, did it under circumstances far from dif. ficult. She was a relative of the Publisher of the Sporting Calendar, in' Oxendon-street, who'was suc ceeeded by the present Mr. Weatherby, and she was backed by the present Duke of Queensberry, who • was then Lord March. She was allo ved to dO the thousand miles on as many horses as sh..: ' chose,without regarding time, and she did the match in 28 days, and two thirds of the time, mi vourite horse. The Lady took her rev regulaily at .night, and rode in the day time 40 or 50 miles.